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Jordi Fibla

    Jordi Fibla Feito is a distinguished Spanish translator whose work bridges cultures through literature, primarily focusing on English and Japanese texts. He demonstrates remarkable versatility, adeptly rendering narratives and essays with a keen eye for stylistic nuance. Fibla Feito is recognized for his deep engagement with classic and contemporary authors, bringing their unique voices to new audiences. His extensive body of translated works highlights a career dedicated to the art of literary translation and its profound impact.

    Soy un buen amante?
    The Dying Animal
    If Cats Disappeared From the World
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    Mr. Noon
    The Joy Luck Club
    • If Cats Disappeared From the World

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week ... Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink -- Source other than Library of Congress

      If Cats Disappeared From the World2023
      3.8
    • A first novel which became a major US film. From the wealthy homes of pre-Revolutionary China to downtown San Francisco, this is the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.

      The Joy Luck Club2007
      4.4
    • The Dying Animal

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.

      The Dying Animal2007
      3.4
    • The Kitchen God's Wife

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      A stunning reissue of the international bestseller, from the much-loved author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winne Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets -- about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate intervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before she flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending on who is telling the tale. . . Thus begins a story that takes us back to Shanghai in the 1920s, through World War II, and the harrowing events that led to Winnie's arrival in America in 1949. The story is one of innocence and its loss, tragedy and survival and, most of all, the enduring qualities of hope, love and friendship.

      The Kitchen God's Wife1996
      4.1
    • Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.

      Mr. Noon1986
      3.8
    • Soy un buen amante?

      La respuesta está en la palma de su mano.

      • 60 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      Soy un buen amante?1982